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Mariana Monteagudo



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(b. Caracas, Venezuela, 1976).
This artists proposes a hybrid infusion of dolls with various types of characters that reference indigenous ritual iconography, such as fertility. She inserts dolls with ceramic, paper, or canvas. In her own words she adds: "I propose to create a race of hybrid characters, that present a combination or a mixture of different cultural manifestations. From the ancestral and mysterious to the more present and meditative. The aspect of the characters seem to be ambiguous, the interplay of the product in between factors produce anxiety and simultaneously affability.

The cultural references at which I refer to are, so much that it has to do with cultural rituals (mortuaries or funerals, of fertility, of festive type, etc.) that originated from different parts of the world, just like the ones that have a relation with the world of the mass media (television, fashion, technology, publication, etc). At the same trying to manage the pieces in a man



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